New York season?
 

i dont know if i am going to be able to hunt this year and experience it first hand so if any of you guys hunt NY, hows the season goin so far?

RE: New York season?
 

dang early birds are killing me,
went out firt weekend,
dang birds were off their roost gobbling at 5am,
will have to be out in position before 5am if i want to catch them off their roost
will try again last weekend of the month,
I hunt Northern NY near lewis/st lawrence counties

RE: New York season?
 

thanks for the info. let me know how your next trip goes.

RE: New York season?
 

May 1st - 2 toms, 1 was 22.75lb, 1.25" and .75" spurs and 9.5" beard, other was 17.5, .75 and 8"

May 7th - 1 tom, 20.7lb, 1" spurs, and 7.5" beard

have heard and saw birds all but the last 3 times out....

RE: New York season?
 

nice birds! thats awesome. are you hunting private land or public?

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What part of NY gives out 3 tags! And what part allows 2 in the same day?

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Yeah really. What's that all about?

My experiences so far have jived with the above post about birds being off the roost early. I've gone twice so far and both times the birds were on the ground by 5 AM. 1st time in Dutchess County on private land, second time in Sullivan County on public land.
I'm going back this coming Sunday with an improved plan of action to take on those Sullivan County toms one more time.

RE: New York season?
 

Guys,

I think we should assume that if he's still hunting, he was obviously hunting with other people who also filled tags...[&:]

My brother hunts Otsego county, and the birds have not been vocal since the 2nd week of April. He'll get an occassional morning with 2-3 gobbles, but that's about it. Birds are still very henned up, and working the fields/strut zones overtime.

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I'm with strut... Let's use some insight and assume that others hunters are involved.

I'm hearing no gobbles in my local "hotspots" (no longer hot)

I'm persistant though, 18 days of 4:00 AM wake ups

It's only a matter of time :)

RE: New York season?
 

Sorry I didnt Clarify, What I meant to say is we doubled opening morning...read about it here ---> [link]http://forum.hunting.net/asppg/tm.asp?m=1048922[/link]


I hunt Private land, May 7th, we had well over 7 Gobblers going, and atleast 3 others besides the one we took coming in. Goin back Saturday for a video hunt.

Good Luck all.